FWF TIME!!!

It's FRIIIIIIDAAAYY!!

Yipee Skippee!!

The weekend has arrived...

What do YOU have planned for the weekend??

Here's what I'll be up to...

*8 kidlets

slumber party-ing @ my house

PiZzA & PoPcoRN

My Grandma's 94th Birthday party

{eating The Pioneer Woman's CORN CHOWDER with CHILES}

Auntie time

{with Jonah & Asher... Nate & Jessi too!}

HuNtiNg ShAcK ShEnaNiGaNs &

BoNfiRe with GrEaT FrIenDs

Teaching SUNDAY SCHOOL

Watching the VIKINGS 

{plus plenty of snacks}

Today is

FRIENDS WITH FLAIR FRIDAY....

{over @ Unity Stamp Co} 

Make sure you stop over @ the

UNITY BLOG

for the entire list of participants for today's hop!

 and be sure to LEAVE THEM SOME LOVE!!

I had SO MUCH fun with the Halloween Project theme yesterday for Hip Hop...

that I wanted to keep making MORE little Halloween goodies...

I grabbed these ideas from

 THE CRAFTING CHICKS BLOG

there are ALL sorts of darling Halloween ideas over there!

 FUN snacks for that Halloween gathering

or GREAT items to give to those special Trick-or-Treaters 

so easy... just wrap up a bag of microwave popcorn in

some patterned paper..

stamp a tag with your UNITY stamps and tie with ribbon..

what a great little gift!

of course you need a Halloween beverage with your popcorn..

pick up some orange soda.. wrap with paper, tie on some

ribbon and a tag.. viola!

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!!

"The whole point of the week is the weekend."

— Angela Montenegro

ooooo.. SPooooooKY!!!

HiP HoP

and

HaPpY HaLLoWeeN

{a bit early}

Today the Unity and {ippity} DT girls have a

SPOOKTACULAR treat for YOU!

All kinds of creepy crawly crafty goodness... for Halloween...

using our favorite stamps from Unity & {ippity} of course!

There is something SO super EXCITING taking place as well..

make sure you 

check out the UNITY BLOG for ALL the info!! 

You won't want to miss this. 

A. BRAND. NEW. WEBSITE.

yipppeee!! 

This fall I've been doing ALOT of cleaning and organizing around my home..

 I've decided to keep only things that are useful or have special meaning.

If we don't use it, or want to keep it for a memento.. ADIOS!

It feels GREAT.. having much less STUFF.

My outdated Halloween decorations were some of the things that I said 'good bye' to...

so I decided to make a BANNER from my kids photos that I can use year to year during the Halloween season and actually want to KEEP because it has MEANING. :)

 It was almost impossible to get a good photo of this banner..

 it is over 4 feet long.

The photos are printed in black and white in 4X6 inch size.

I had to hang it outside on my porch wall to get decent lighting.

{do you LOVE that OLD peely paint?? I DO. it's vintage... it's distressed... its just MY STYLE.}

 These pics are from last Halloween- 2009

Chloe upheld the Hallow's Eve law as a pretty
police officer.

 Caden played the part perfectly as an amazingly
CREEPY mummy

{I LOVED making this costume!!}

 I used Glimmer Mist to make my eyelet match! SO COOL!

 Brody made his way through the night as a
FREAKY vampire...

{once again.. i LOVED making this costume!}

 Sweet little Sofia.. well she was a butterfly fairy.

Dainty and Darling. That's HER style.

I cut all the pendants from cardstock, added patterned paper and machine stitching..

attached the photos... used my UNITY STAMPS and a few other goodies to decorate...

set eyelets between the pendants... connected them with ribbon..

and added a few extra pieces of ribbon for FUN!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Join us over @ Splitcoast Stampers for more SPoOKy FuN!

Next hop on over to the very talented

*** KIMBER ***

FRIENDS with FLAIR!

HELLO FRIDAY!!!!!!!

Time for some FABULOUS creations from Unity's FANTASTIC FRIENDS!!!

Make sure you check out the

UNITY BLOG

for INSPIRATION... and

the WHOLE list of participants!!

Grab a cup of coffee and check out these

BEAUTIOUS projects!

there is also a FAB SALE going on...check it out on the blog!

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Don't forget... the Unity & {ippity} DT girls are hosting

23 SUPER FUN CHALLENGES

over @ Splitcoast Stampers

to CELEBRATE World Card Making Day...

you still have TIME to join in

and possibly WIN Unity's Kit of the Month for an ENTIRE YEAR!

All the Challenges are posted HERE 

(they have a green arrow by them)

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 birthday girl...

I used:

October Kit of the Month

{take time to laugh}

Frame This Alpha

Have the BEST weekend!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Already?!

Thursday already?!

This week is FLYING by...

which is a good thing...

because my sweet 5th grade daughter, Chloe

is on a school field trip for the entire week

and we are starting to miss her ALOT!

I've been keeping myself  BUSY this week

with some home remodeling and organization projects...

but made time to play with a few of my lovely new

Unity Stamps

This is my FAVORITE stamp in the new

October Kit of the Month

{take time to laugh}

it is simply AMAZING!

I also decided to get started on my

Christmas cards...

maybe if I get them all done during

October

I can SHOP the whole month of 

November!

:)

warm winter comforts...

card

beautiful day...

card

Thanks so much for visiting!

Make sure you go to the

UNITY BLOG

and join us @ Splitcoast Stampers

for chatting, challenges, prizes, inspiration and FUN!

There are 23 World Card Making Day Challenges

being hosted by the Unity and {ippity} Design Teams

in the Unity forum @ SCS

If you play along with all our challenges.. you have the

opportunity to win Unity's Kit of the Month

for a WHOLE YEAR.

WOWZA!!

Here is the link to check out the challenges!

CHALLENGE THREAD

Now it's time to check out

***KIMBER***

HOORAY!!!! WCMD!!!

Happy Saturday!

It's World Card Making Day

HOORAY!

Time to

CELEBRATE!

This is going to be

SO MUCH FUN!!!

Each of the Unity Design Team Girls..

AND

each of the {ippity} Design Team Girls

are hosting a

WCMD CHALLENGE...

YOU are INVITED TO PLAY!!!!!!!!!!

MY

 challenge will have you in

STITCHES!

Here is what you need to do to play along....

Create a

CARD

with

STITCHING

on it somewhere...

the stitching can be

MACHINE, HAND or FAUX

Post your project in your

GALLERY on SCS

using the code

USCWCMD11

LINK us up in MY challenge THREAD on SCS

so we can all go look for your lovely creation.

You have 2 WEEKS from TODAY to post your card.

What's in it FOR YOU??

You can win a

UNITY ITTY BITTY STAMP
{and much more!}

More details on the
UNITY BLOG!

Here are a couple examples of how I used stitching on my projects... :)

machine stitching on ribbon to create a ruffle

 hand stitching with embroidery floss

 more ruffle making with machine stitching on ribbon

zig zag stitch to create accent on edge of photo

 stitching on denim for border

large ruffle border made from torn piece of fabric and machine stitching

Have a most wonderful Saturday!!